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William Blake (1757-1827)

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Literary Criticism

Baulch, David M. "The Sublime of the Bible," on William Blake's Milton and how Blake's notion of the sublime differed from conventional ideas. In Romanticism on the Net, Issue 3 (August 1996)

Bentley, G.E. A review of Stranger from Paradise: a Biography of William Blake (Yale University Press, 2001)Reviewed in Criticism, Summer, 2002 by Kathryn Freeman

Bidney, Martin. A song of innocence and of experience: rewriting Blake in Brodkey's "Piping Down the Valleys Wild." On William Blake and Harold Brodkey, in Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1994

Castellano, Katey "The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom": Alternative Economies of Excess in Blake's Continental Prophecies [America, Europe, The Song of Los]. Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2006.

Connolly, Tristanne J. A review of William Blake and the Body (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Reviewed in College Literature, Spring 2004 by Longacre, Jeffrey

Eaves, Morris, et al. "Once Only Imagined." An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi on the future of Blake studies. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, January 2003

Eliot, T.S. Poet T.S. Eliot on William Blake from Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1922)

Essick, Robert and Joseph Viscomi "An Inquiry into Blake's Method of Color Printing." In Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly, Vol. 35, no. 3(winter 2001/2002)

Fulford, Tim. A Romantic technologist and Britain's Little Black Boys [chimney sweep]. Wordsworth Circle, Wntr, 2002

Gilpin, G. H. "William Blake and the world's body of science." Studies in Romanticism, 22-MAR-04

Goldberg, Brian. "Byron, Blake, and Heaven," in Romanticism on the Net, Issue 27 (August 2002)

Goslee, Nancy Moore. "Soul" in Blake's writing: redeeming the word. Wordsworth Circle, Wntr, 2002

Hobson, Christopher Z. A review of Blake and Homosexuality (Palgrave, 2000), reviewed in Criticism, Spring, 2002 by Harriet Kramer Linkin

Höltgen, Karl Josef. "William Blake and the Emblem Tradition" in EESE 2/2002

Hutchings, Kevin. "Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion" in Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Ecology, November 2001

Paananen, Victor N. A review of William Blake (Twayne Publishers, 1996). Reviewed by David M. Baulch in Romanticism on the Net, No. 8 (November 1997)

Peterfreund, Stuart. A review of William Blake in a Newtonian World: Essays on Literature as Art and Sciene (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998). Reviewed in Criticism, Wntr, 1999 by Grant Scott

Pfau, Thomas. "Bringing About the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Conspiracy, July 2004

Phillips, Michael. A review of William Blake: the Creation of the Songs: from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing (The British Library and Princeton University Press, 2000). Reviewed in Criticism, Fall, 2001 by Michael Ferber

Plotnitsky, Arkady. "Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake’s Minute Particulars." In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Complexity, March 2001

Prather, Russell. William Blake and the problem of progression [The Four Zoas, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]. Studies in Romanticism, Winter, 2007.

Punter, David. A substantial introduction to William Blake from the Literary Encyclopedia 17 July 2001. On Songs of Innocence (1789); On Songs of Experience (1794)

Punter, David (ed.) A review of William Blake, New Casebooks (Macmillan, 1996). Part of a round-up review, reviewer Michael O'Neill, Romanticism on the Net Issue 7 (August 1997)

Raine, Kathleen. A review of Raine's Blake and Tradition (Princeton Univ. Press, 1968). First page of article only. Reviewed by Jean H. Hagstrum in Modern Philology, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Aug., 1970), pp. 76-82

Raffel, Burton. "Translation: processes and attitudes" [William Blake, "The Tyger"]. Literary Review, Spring, 2002.

Reilly, Susan P. "Blake's Poetics of Sound in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." Contends that by combining many genres and choosing genres which originate in sound or speech, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell merges William Blake's Higher Criticism with an emphasis on oral culture. In Romanticism on the Net Issue 16 (November 1999)

Schierenbeck, Daniel. "'Sublime labours': aesthetics and political economy in Blake's Jerusalem." Studies in Romanticism, 22-MAR-07

Sheasby, Ronald E. "Dual Reality: Echoes of Blake's Tiger in Cullen's Heritage." [Influence of William Blake on African-American poet Countee Cullen]. College Language Association Journal 39.2 (Dec. 1995).

Simpson, Michael. "Who didn't kill Blake's fly: moral law and the rule of grammar in 'Songs of Experience.' - William Blake - Rhetoric and Poetics, in Style, Summer, 1996

Wright, Julia M. Review of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio University Press, 2004) Reviewed by David Baulch. Romanticism on the Net, Issues 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005)

Introduction

Brief biography of William Blake from the Academy of American Poets

A short biography of William Blake from Gale's Understanding Poetry

Older criticism of William Blake's work, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). On Songs of Innocence and Thel; On Marriage of Heaven and Hell and earlier Prophecies; On Songs of Experience

On William Blake and the Gothic tradition, by Jennifer Randonis, Arizona State Univ., at Prometheus Unplugged (Emory)

Web sites, Bibliography, Texts

Romanticism on the Net an international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An impressive scholarly enterprise devoted to English literature of the Romantic period, the journal has been making essays freely available since 1996

Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer

Web site for the scholarly journal The Wordworth Circle

The William Blake Archive, a grant-funded hypermedia archive edited by Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi

The Blake Digital Text Project from Dr. Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Ga.

Summary of critical interpretations of Blake's "The Lamb" from leading literary critics, with bibliography. Interpretations of "The Tyger." From Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Ga.

A web exhibition of William Blake's art from an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1999, shows 176 plates and provides commentary on William Blake's artistic techniques

"Digital Designs on Blake." A series of articles by Ron Broglio, David M. Baulch, Marcel O'Gorman, Nelson Hilton, Joseph Byrne, Adam Komisaruk, Steven Guynup, and Fred Yee consider how new media representation of William Blake's work provides a heuristic for another mode of inquiry into Blake's texts. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, January 2005

"A Romantic Natural History" focuses on relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on William Blake and other Romantics. By Professor Ashton Nichols

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